boy, that was fast.... I' m wgetting these images here:- http://ks355011.kimsufi.com/90000/en/iso/ as I seem to be getting very poor download speeds in the UK. Dunno why. Anyways, expect a new mirror once I install 90k.

riverplate is my newest partition, currently (as of a few hours ago) dedicated to 89K. bocajuniors is my external drive-based system, running BLAGHEAD: I plug it in and boot off of it instead of Windoze at my workplace. My 70K system (upgrading to 89K shortly) is patagonia. I believe in localization. :^)

I took tons more screen shots. Installation went fine but I was unable to log into either my non-root account or as root via gnome.This is a long version of the install.

=== installation ===
- Grab net install iso image for 90k [very slow for me in the UK so I put them here also http://ks355011.kimsufi.com/90000/en/iso/]
- Hit enter once you can boot from the cd.
- Select url as an installation method
- The url is ftp://blagblagblag.org/pub/blag/linux/9 ... 386/images- Carry on the installation as per a usual install
- Good news is that partitions can be encrypted simply. Better encrypt your swap as well if you are going to encrypt ~/home and you use a laptop.
- The first time around I went with the default packages and anaconda complained of a package conflict. I think that it was between gnome and blag logos or some desktop-logo thing. Anaconda also complained of the repo, some foo.xml issue. (Sketchy details as I was very tired at the time). The second time around I went for a base install, removing everything apart from "base system". Anaconda still proceeded to install 622 packages. grrr
- After the install box booted, hardware detected and I as presented with a snazzy gdm login.
- Was not able to use gdm to login at all, either as root or jayeola. I used a virtual term to login and this confirmed that my UK key map was correct.
- Selinux was disabled so it wasn't the package from the nice chaps from the NSA that was locking me out.

- After a number of failed log in attempts I've rolled back to 70k.

=== things to note ===
- Use the shell, Luke! There's a fully functional VT on VT/3 [ctrl]+[fn]+[alt] on my kb. Use that to ssh to other servers. very handy ;-)
- print screen. [shift]+[print screen] on my kb. All Screen shots are saved in /tmp/anaconda-screenshots. Use a VT and scp them to another box.
- Install log. /tmp/anaconda.log (or summink like that). Useful for Jebba if an installation fails

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